Create a Mockup to Bring Your Ideas to Life

Toss your sketchbook aside! Use Canva to pull together a design mockup that will both impress and communicate.

Show off your ideas with a brilliant mockup

Great designers doodle, and the best make something new every day. Canva makes it easy to bring your ideas to people with plenty of tools to craft quick mockups of websites, apps, print layouts, or anything else you can imagine. Whether you’re creating a mockup for a freelance client, or generating oodles of thumbnails, let us help you create a brilliant mockup, so you can focus on polish and precision.

Browse through Canva’s templates and start customizing your design. Canva’s easy drag-and-drop editor gives you full control over your designs. Add, remove or re-position design elements, change fonts and colors, add more pages – you can edit as much as or as little as you need. You can also design on the go by adding Canva to your iPhone, iPad or Android device. Our apps are free to download from the App Store and Google Play.

Create a mockup in five easy steps

Create a new Canva account to get started with your own Mockup design.

Choose from our library of beautifully designed templates.

Upload your own photos or choose from over 1 million stock images.

Fix your images, add stunning filters and edit text.

Save and share.

Have fun experimenting with your design

Change the images. Upload your own images or choose from our stock library of over 1 million photographs, graphics and illustrations.

Change the fonts. Choose from over 130 fresh fonts.

Change the background. Choose a background from our library or use an image.

Change the colors. Change the color of your text boxes and text to add extra flair.

Plan your project with a mockup

Design is not unlike carpentry: one should measure twice and cut once. A mockup is a design proof-of-concept; a way to show off big ideas without getting lost in the weeds with lots of finicky details. We can help you design a mockup that will get approved, get feedback, and let you get on with your project.

Build your next site by starting with a web mockup

The best websites are an elegant combination of form and function, and starting with a mockup is a great way to hammer down usability before you start counting pixels. Make your web mockup in Canva and not only will you have access to all of our easy-to-use drag and drop tools, but you can search our image library for widgets, menus, and website elements ready to use for free.

Craft mockups for your mobile app or responsive website

Why would you type even a single line of code before you know exactly what user experience you want? Save yourself time and debugging headaches by getting things right with a mobile app mockup. Not only do we have all the buttons and sliders you could ever need in our image library, but we also have frames for smartphones and tablets so you can preview exactly what your app will look like in your user’s hands.

Plan your portfolio to show off your best work

Every designer knows that printing a professional portfolio on high-quality paper is quite the expense. All the more reason to prepare a mockup! With Canva’s photo editing and layout tools, you can quickly put together a sample of your best work. Then export to PDF and print from any home printer so you can hold your portfolio draft in your hands before emptying your bank account on production copies.

Craft mockups for print and export them to PDF

Mockups aren’t just for digital projects: they’re great for working out ideas in print too. No matter what you’re designing, from business cards to party invitations, we have plenty of templates ready for you to customize. We even make it easy to finish your print project with the power to download any design as a print-ready PDF. We’ll even take care of the crop marks!

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